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Neil Girdhar mistersheik at gmail.com
Tue Feb 10 00:20:06 CET 2015

That wording is my fault. I'll update the PEP to remove the word "currently" after waiting a bit to see if there are any other problems.

Best,

Neil

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 6:16 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015, at 17:12, Neil Girdhar wrote: > Right, > > Just to be clear though: **-args must follow any *-args and position > arguments. So at worst, your example is: > > f(x, y, *k, *b, c, **w, **d) > > Best, Ah, I guess I was confused by this sentence in the PEP: " Function calls currently have the restriction that keyword arguments must follow positional arguments and ** unpackings must additionally follow * unpackings." That suggests that that rule is going to change. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20150209/e70224da/attachment.html>

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